Notable & Quotable

Updated Jan. 18, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Simon Heffer, writing in this week's edition of the London magazine, the Spectator:

We all know that life under the Blair Terror can be pretty grim, but I am beginning to fret about the increasing signs of a collapse in national morale. I do not refer to the well-documented exodus of Britons to live abroad, or to our sense of defeat in the face of rising crime and seemingly unlimited taxation, or even to the semi-formal establishment of the Church of England as an arm of the light entertainment industry. I refer, of...